Lee Taylor:  

Military After my freshman year at Brigham Young University, I decided it would be more fun to make my way in the world, so I went to work instead of planning on my educational future. That worked until Novermber of 1965, when I received my draft notice. Not wanting to be a rifelman by choice, I enlisted and chose to be a heavy equipment operator. I entered the Army on 4 Feb 66, and after basic training (with 4 high school friends) at Fort Ord, I was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for AIT with the 593rd Engineer Company. While there I learned to operate most of the heavy equipment in the Engineer Arsenal. I moved into the operation center and became the operations clerk after completion of training. When orders started coming in to dissapate the freshly trained operators, I declined an invitation to go to Europe (I was on hold for acceptance to OCS), but I jumped on a change to go to Okinawa. I was assigned as an "Engineer Equipment Operator". Sounds good huh, but it turns out that generators are engineer equipment. I was assigned to a HAWK Missile battery, as a generator operator. It was not what I had in mind as a job, but in the long run I could not have asked for better duty. ...Expand for more